This series of self-instruction books will teach you the secrets of writing programs in BASIC on your AMSTRAD computer. Unit 1: FIRST STEPS IN BASIC Starting with the first things every programmer need to know, you will learn to issue commands to the computer, as well as writing and running programs. By the end of the unit you'll be able to make your computer perform useful and interesting tasks. Unit 2: EXPLORING BASIC This unit teaches you the most important concepts of BASIC: numeric variables, string variables, FOR . .. NEXT and IF... THEN statements, and much more. You'll create a digital computer clock, and interesting graphics programs including animation. Unit 3: COMPUTER GAMES In this unit you will learn to develop various computer video games. As you progress through the unit, new programming concepts such as random numbers will be introduced. By the end you'll have considerable programming skills. And after that. . . we're planning more units to deal with special subjects, such as 3D graphics, machine code and more.

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